NARRATOR: It is the year 2020. Media plays the role of government in the lives of school children. Children are forced to learn through video games, the Internet, and watching aimless hours of TV. However, there are some who want to break away.
NERD 2: Don’t you think it’s time that we start a revolution?
So begins Priscilla Ward’s sci-fi play, Twilight, a meditation on the influence of media on education in America.
"I’d been reading George Orwell’s 1984 and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and I was inspired to write about how our culture is influenced by the media," Priscilla says. "We’re so influenced by what we see. Sometimes people just take the information in like robots instead of thinking on their own."
How do students creatively express their experience in DC schools?
On Monday night DC students mingled with diplomats, and discussed theater and writing with bank managers, lobbyists and professional actors at 
